The Zhong family and the Zhao family got married, and the old man of the Zhong family set down the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month to welcome Qianru through the door. It is said that it is the New Year of the poor, the New Year of the rich, and it is better to marry a daughter-in-law for the New Year, and the Zhong family naturally wants to add people to the new year, which is a good sign for the prosperity of the family.

The Zhao family naturally does not object, Qianru is already sixteen years old, and when she reaches the age when she should get married, it is not appropriate to delay it any longer. So the two families happily set the wedding date, and Qianru began to prepare the dowry.

On August 18, Yun Xue came to Zhao's house, found Village Chief Zhao, and told him that she wanted to buy wasteland.

"This is good, our imperial court has always encouraged the cultivation of wasteland, and there is no need to pay taxes for three years to open up wasteland. However, most people are reluctant to open up wasteland because it is difficult to handle it. If you want to buy this simple one, I'll take someone over to measure it for you, and then go to the county to get the title deed. When Village Chief Zhao heard this, he was quite happy, he understood that Yunxue, these children, really wanted to live a good life.

"Girl, it's a lot of work to open up the wasteland, you have to think about it." Village Chief Zhao looked at Yun Xue very lovingly and persuaded her to understand.

"Grandpa, don't worry, I've been thinking about this for a long time, and now there are only ten acres of land at home, which is still a little less. I'm thinking about buying more land, but it's too expensive, and I have to wait for an opportunity to come across it. It's better to buy a piece of wasteland, and we will slowly take care of it ourselves, and raising it is actually similar to good land. Yun Xue understood Village Chief Zhao's intentions, he was afraid that he would not be able to handle it, and when the time came, he would be blind and he would have to pay taxes in the future.

"Cheng, since you've thought it through, I won't say anything. Tomorrow I will lead a few men and go and measure the land for you. It just so happened that there was nothing to do this fall, so you turned the ground up. Dry it for a while, freeze it again in winter, and the insects in the field will almost die. The village chief also understood that Yunxue's character was not that uncertain, so he happily agreed.

On the second day, Village Chief Zhao really took people to the piece of land that Yun Xue was optimistic about, and after the whole land was measured, it was a total of twenty-four acres. Village Chief Zhao recorded all the details of this land, and then said, "Girl, the price of wasteland, four taels of silver per mu, these are a total of ninety-six taels, can the family have so much money?" ”

"Yes, it's okay, when grandpa wants it, I'll give it to you." Yun Xue nodded hurriedly, the family's money is enough, this is not worrying.

Village Chief Zhao nodded, and secretly admired Yun Xue's ability in his heart. It cost nearly 100 taels to buy land and cattle in the spring, and this time to buy land again, it was nearly 100 taels. This money is definitely not left by Han Yong, Han Yong has been back for so many years, if he had money in his hand, he would have bought the land a long time ago.

"Girl, if your father and your mother knew that you were so capable and could earn such a big family business, they would be happy." The old man said abruptly.

"Grandpa, you say that my mother is happy and I believe it, but my father may not. I've offended all the people of the old Han family, and if my father was alive, he would definitely scold me. Yun Xue shook her head and laughed at herself.

"No, your father can understand that you are doing this for the good of your younger siblings. If your father knew anything, he would also understand that he had done something wrong before. The old Han family, the more I look at it, the less it looks like a family of people. Village Chief Zhao sighed while comforting Yun Xue.

The old Han family sent their daughters to be concubines for others, everyone knows about this, and there is a lot of talk behind it. Some people think that they have climbed the high branches, and they will just wait to get naked with their daughters and live a good life in the future. has that rich experience, but he shook his head and sighed, not optimistic. How many of these concubines can get a good end? Too many concubines were finally disposed of by the grandmother of the main house, or they were sacrificed to the battle in the back house. Don't look at the jade peach at the moment, it looks very favored, the future is still long, and there may be anything.

"Girl, you have to remember, let's live a down-to-earth life, don't go down to those crooked ways." The old village chief couldn't help but tell Yun Xue.

"Hey, grandpa, don't worry, Yun Xue doesn't have that posture, and she doesn't look down on those things in the mansion. In Yunxue's life, she just wants to live a down-to-earth life. Yun Xue's heart warmed, people were caring about themselves.

"I believe this, our Yunxue is not the one who doesn't do his job." The old village chief smiled, "But you're not ugly, I look at it, it's better than Yutao's girl." You just don't like to dress up, and you're like a tomboy all day long. It's a good thing, you don't have anyone in your family who can protect you, and if you make it too good-looking, I'm afraid it will also cause trouble. Today's years are a little uneven, you have to be careful. ”

Village Chief Zhao babbled a little more, which was nothing more than to let Yun Xue pay attention to it, I heard that there have been some unpeaceful things recently. Yun Xue has all this in mind, these older people have rich life experience, and those are valuable wealth, it is not wrong to listen to them more.

Yun Xue gave Village Chief Zhao a hundred taels, and the land deed to buy the land was also to be paid to the people in the yamen, so Village Chief Zhao couldn't be asked to pay for it. Village Chief Zhao took the time to lead his son to the county and handled the matter of the land deed.

Looking at the title deed stamped with a big red seal in her hand, Yun Xue was extremely happy. Waiting to send Village Chief Zhao away, she took out the small box at the bottom of the kang cabinet. There are also two land deeds in it, one is the two acres originally purchased by Han Yong, and the other is the ten acres that he bought in the spring, both of which are Yun Zhen's name. The one in his hand is a newly bought wasteland, and the name of Yun Ting is written on it.

Yunxue is planning to buy some land for several younger brothers in the family, and with land, it will be easier to say that her daughter-in-law will be in the future. Originally, Yun Xue still wanted to write Yun Lin's name, but later Yun Lin refused to let her, saying that she was not a child of the Han family and didn't want to fight with her younger brothers. Yun Xue couldn't resist Yun Lin, so she didn't write Yun Lin's name.

This season, there are a lot of good things to do in the mountains. Yun Xue decided not to open up the wasteland for the time being, and the people in the family went up the mountain to pull some things back to the house first. Like pine towers, walnuts, and hazelnuts, these things can be sold in the town in winter. Even if you can't buy it, you can eat it at home, and it's very good for children to eat these. In addition, next year I still want to raise pigs, this mountain of oak trees, some are acorns, pick up more back, then feed the pigs is a good thing.

So, after finishing the work of buying land, Yun Xue took Yun Zhen, Tianfu, and Yun Lei up the mountain, and rowed back every day to pull good things. Yunni is at home to watch the house, coax the children, cook, now that Xiaoyunxia is older, she looks better than before, she is very obedient, and she doesn't run around, Yunni takes her to do things, but she doesn't delay.

Zhou Wenhao and his wife came over every day, and when they saw this situation, Zhou Wenhao was also interested, and he had to go up the mountain with Yunxue and them. Yun Xue couldn't stop him, so she had to take him with her. At this moment, Zhou Wenhao was very happy, he went up the mountain together every morning and came back in the afternoon, grinning when he was tired and had a sore back.

Shen looked at her husband's happy appearance, and couldn't help but want to follow her up the mountain, but Yun Xue resolutely refused to allow her to go. "Auntie, you should stay with Yunni at home. These days, I heard that Gao Li on the other side seems to be fighting or something, we are not very stable here, with you with Yunni, I can rest assured. ”

After mid-August, Gao Li occasionally came over secretly on the other side of the river. Some people here can still understand some Gao Li's words, and I heard that it seems that there is a war over there, and many Gao Li men have died. In order not to be conscripted, some secretly crossed the river and ran here. Yun Xue was also a little worried, their village was too close to the river, what if someone came over?

As soon as Shen heard this, he no longer asked to follow him to the mountain. "Okay, then I'll forget it at home with Yunni, alas, this world is getting more and more chaotic."

No matter what happens on the other side of the river, the days here still have to go on, and Yunxue and they didn't go into the mountains until the beginning of September. The good things in the neighborhood are almost all drawn, and if you are too far away, it is not very cost-effective.

So, Yun Xue began to lead everyone to open up the wasteland again. There were a number of trees growing on the wasteland, and all kinds of small shrubs, especially the mountain thorn rose and the tray of seedlings, which were covered with thorns, and were the most difficult to get by.

With their own scythes, they cut down all the little bushes, gathered them together, and piled them on the ground. Next, we have to dig out the big roots of the trees in the ground and pick up the stones. These jobs were very tiring, and Yun Xue's hands were blistered.

The two members of the Zhou family also followed the busy work before and after, the men of the Zhong family went out again, and those daughters-in-law also came over to help when they found time. With the help of these people, in about ten days, the ground will be very clean.

It happened to be a bit cloudy on the eleventh day, and it seemed that it was going to rain, so Yun Xue and Yun Zhen went to the wasteland, and made the roots and trees that were cleared out into several piles, and then set them on fire. Autumn is the driest in the fall, and the roots of these trees have been dried for several days, so they are easy to burn.

Yun Xue was afraid of running away from the fire, so she took her younger brothers to watch it all the time. It wasn't until the evening, when the fire was almost burning, and it happened to be raining lightly in the sky, that Yunxue was relieved and led her younger brothers home.

Yunni had already finished the meal, and everyone had just sat down to eat, when there was a sudden movement outside. Yun Zhen went out to take a look, and it turned out to be Rhubarb's mother and son coming back. It's been a long time since the rhubarb mother and son have been out, and they are rarely at home now. "Big sister, it's rhubarb, they're back, good guy, and they're back with a roe deer." Yun Zhen shouted happily.

Yun Xue heard this, and hurriedly came out to take a look, and sure enough, Rhubarb threw a roe deer to the ground. "You two are really ghosts, don't you want to go home when it's raining?" Yun Xue smiled and patted Xiao Huang's head.